FULL Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: The Opera Newton 2026 Mumbles A Cappella

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: The Opera  
• Composer: Vuivaldi Antonio, Richard Mainwaring  
• Libretto: ᴊᴏ ʏᴇᴀxʟᴇʏ-ʙᴀᴛᴄʜ  
• Venue & Opera Company: St Peter's Church in Newton, Swansea, Wales, UK  
• Recorded: March 25, 2026
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Chloe Orrin, Meg Forwood, Joseph Pyke, Isaac Whittaker
• Conductor: Thomas Howell  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Mumbles A Cappella  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons was published in 1725. In the original manuscript, Vivaldi wrote short, descriptive seasonal poems to accompany his music. As he wrote at least fifty operas and recycled much of his material, the idea of The Four Seasons as an operatic work – the weaving of a narrative through these musical vignettes – requires only a small leap of imagination. ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ ᴍᴀɪɴᴡᴀʀɪɴɢ has done just that.

  With minimal alterations to Vivaldi’s original music, Mainwaring, along with librettist ᴊᴏ ʏᴇᴀxʟᴇʏ-ʙᴀᴛᴄʜ, has adapted The Four Seasons into a fully formed opera, telling the tragic love story of Pietro and Bella. The work contains a contemporary warning to humanity, a prescient caution from Vivaldi’s grave. The couple at the centre of the story treat Mother Earth with disdain, abandoning their respect for nature and the Gods. This operatic adaptation warns us in stark terms that the consequence of ignoring Nature’s cries will end in profound tragedy.

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